Just My Luck (2006) (uploaded by DRA Studio)2 out of 5 bubbly washer overloadsUm, this was another one that Jodie and Michelle forced me to watch. It’s pretty much what you would expect from another Lindsay Lohan movie, with typical drama and predictable outcomes. Granted, for what this movie lacked in originality, it made up for with endurability. Not only was I able to stomach the whole thing without cringing too often at cheese-ball corniness, ...

Edward Scissorhands (1990) (uploaded by DRA Studio)3 out of 5 stabs with safety scissorsJodie and Michelle made me sit down last night and watch this for the first time. And seeing that Jodie was nice enough to cook homemade lasagna for me, how could I say “no”?

Jodie has been watching lots of Ace of Cakes recently and decided to add some fun fondant pizazz to the cake she made for her College Choir's end-of-year party. Not only does it look pretty amazing, but because she used marshmallow yummy fondant, it tastes good too!

Saturday had a few other fun things in it (like making pancakes for everyone and playing a truckload of Gears with Nathan), but the highlight was definitely checking out Jim Carrey's new 23.

A bit more scary/edgy than I normally go out for, but definitely one of my favorite film storylines in a long time. It was just what I needed to get over the sad experience that both Pan's Labrinyth and Ghost Rider were.

If you ...

Courtesy of everyone's favorite Student Life boss, Terry Allcorn, I used my free Blockbuster rental to watch Jet Li's Fearless with a few friends on Monday night. It was really amazing the first time I saw it in the theater with Matt Z and it maintained every bit of that monumental and tragic beauty that drew me in initially.

One of Li Lian Jie's best movies yet, "Fearless" embodied so much of what I love about ...

** Yet another fun Color-Me for all the fans out there. Hop if you enjoy this one! Woot Woot! **

Same ol' blah'dy blah at work. No friends in town and not really enough work to keep my mind preoccupied ... and not thinking about wanting to be outside in the cool afternoon air. Oh well. Yay for lazy Thanksgiving week non-productivity!

After work, there was plenty of relaxing and a little napping too ... in preparation ...

Jodie and I have been in the midst of watching the Star Wars Saga during our lunch breaks the past few days and when a question came up that neither of us knew the answer for, Jodie decided to ask her friend Drew Stewart who turned us on to this great resource: Wookieepedia. Now you too can find answers to all your saber-singed questions. Enjoy!
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Wow ... they are really cranking them out! Looks like the mighty Pixar has a new project on the horizon, Ratatouille.

I'm just downloading the trailer now, but if it half as cute and amazing-looking as the screenshots that were posted on the Character Design blog, I am so excited already about it.
Update: Okay, so I just watched the trailer .... and right now, not only am I anxious, excited and smiling, but I feel as ...

Aha! Finally the first Spider-Man 3 trailer has arrived. The sweet 480p version is setting itself into the zeros and ones of my hardrive as I type this. Check it out and let me know your thoughts!

Also, if you haven't already peep'd the trailer for Ghost Rider, stop dilly-dallying and get to it! It already looks really great and if you know a bit about the story behind Nicholas Cage and superhero movies, you know ...

So what happens if you accidentally leave your copy of Microsoft Office at home and now 2 hours away, all you have is the internet and you really need to get that Word document completed today. What do you do?

Or what if you never actually purchased a copy of Office for the house and all you have is your work copy? What do you do, man?

Thinkfree has the solution for you. Their service allows you ...

So it seems that although we can all stop hoping for the Fall TV line-up to include the much-anticipated Aquaman series on the CW, our dreams for a humorous summer are still much alive. NBC plans to release (web-only, mind you) 10 mini-series The Office episodes, each focusing the alibis of different Dunder Mifflin employees, as the mystery of the missing Accounting money is solved. Sounds pretty interesting.
You can read more about it here.
And with ...

3 out of 5 mistaken pill bottles

Even though I am feeling a bit under the weather today (I'm not sure if it is the flu or just a bad sore throat), I am still trying be up and about, doing things. So while taking care of the dishes in the sink and eating lunch, I watch the Orange County DVD I borrowed from Tyler.

3 out of 5 big chicken heads wearing glasses

Despite Disney's best attempts to make me want to see this film (trendy commercials, slick looking advertisements, super prominent hype), I really had not interest. It really just looked like Disney's attempt at doing something 3D and fun, without having to pay Pixar for the awesomeness.

My father-in-law just happened to have it the last time we were visiting, so I figured, "ehh ... why not."

I watched about ...

So it was sad enough that the Wilsons were leaving so soon. But since we didn't finish packing until late last night, we barely got to hang out. Everybody pretty much just crashed at our house and then of course the next morning, Jodie and I have to go to work.

Lucky for us though, the Wilsons do include Adam and he is usually late to things, so they didn't leave right at 8 like they ...

On Saturday Jodie and I headed over to the lovely UCF campus so Jodie could complete the last of her teacher certification exams. I (very happily) got to spend the day hanging out in the UCF Library. While Jodie scan-tron'd away, I got to spend some time designing a new wallpaper, drawing the evil Michelle Monster (more on that later) and enjoying the movie, MirrorMask (more on that later, too).

After Jodie finished her first test, ...

Hehe ... I'll let you in on a little secret ... Matt and me ... we're planning something. Something cool. Cool and big. Something cool and big and totally needing to involve our faces as cartoons. Hehe.

O, it is gonna be good.

Frank Shepard Fairey (Shep-Ard Fair-ee)
Born: February 15, 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina

Wikipedia says, "Fairey is a contemporary graphic designer. He is most noted for being the artist who, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1990, created the 'André the Giant Has a Posse' sticker campaign, which has evolved into the 'Obey Giant' campaign, and can now be seen all over the world. Fairey frequently uses wheatpaste to affix large posters to ...

1 out of 5 possibly missing childrenDirected by Robert Schwentke

I didn't really enjoy this one, so let's make it quick.

Jodie Foster is quite good at the role she was handed ... she really convinced me that she was absolutely out of her mind!

Basically, with this movie there comes a point when you have to choose sides; either you have a tendency toward paranoia and hysterics and you choose to believe Kyle's insane ramblings OR you ...

The One Minute Manager
Written by Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D. and Spencer Johnson, M.D.

Something I had to read for work. Probably an interesting read for some and maybe even beneficial on some subconscious level for me, but really, I just found it to be a load of tripe. I mean, there are some intriguing ideas and possibly useful concepts, but you have to wade through all the bogus emotions and campy dialogue to get to them. To ...

Yesterday I had a revelation. An astounding and fantastic revelation!

Yesterday I realized that two of my favorite visual creators (it doesn't seem enough to call them just 'artists') share a first name and a near identical sounding last name.

Meet Mike Kunkel and Michael Kungl. Both spectacular in their medium of art; both much more creative than I can currently hope to be; both with a flair for marvelous colors and ingenious storytelling (in their own ...

5 out of 5 golden carrot bulletsDirected by Steve Box, Nick Park

Astounding animation. Delightful characters. Family fun for all. In just a few nutty peanut shells, that is what you can expect from the new Wallace and Gromit film.

I have always enjoyed the animated shorts that feature these two and seeing them in their own full-length feature film was just wonderful.

Besides the superb (and really, extremely detailed) stop motion animation, this film is build on ...

4 out of 5 drunken bathrobe rendezvousesDirected by Cameron Crowe

Isn't it funny how sometimes just the look of a movie trailer can entice you enough to want to see the movie? Or how it can make you so anxious for the movie, you wait in anticipation for months just to catch another glimpse? That is definitely how I felt about this movie. And wonderfully enough, it did not disappoint.

What was really awesome about this movie ...

3 out of 5 car-flipping crazy stuntsDirected by Louis Leterrier

Adam and I finished this one today and it was definitely enjoyable. Plenty of martial arts film influences, crazy car-chase sequences, and wild gun play. I could have done with less of the occasional cheesy acting on the part Alessandro Gassman ... with his one line quips and ridiculously stereotyped character. And I know I speak for both Adam and I when I say that I ...

4 out of 5 gross face-sucking slugsDirected by Peter Jackson

This was a pretty good movie, with only a few minor flaws that had me bring it down by one star. Here we go:

Likes:
- Opening titles: Simplistic, yet perfectly fulfilling
- Landscape, era, and costume design: Astounding. As a period piece, this was magnificent. Old New York looks amazing and feels so real.
- CGI: O man! King Kong looks so very real. The face, the hair, the ...

Sorry, but yet another non-movie review post ... this one is a list of movies and TV shows that I vaguely remember from my childhood. For all you movie buffs or TV show know-it-alls, this one is for you ... help an absent-minded TV watcher out. If I have found the actual name of the show/movie, it is there ... otherwise, I have listed some details on the unknown title. Let's do this:

TV Shows
Nightman
Never really ...